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Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

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I am reading Eva Luna at the moment. I'm like it very much and find it rich and rewarding and it's language beautiful in many places.

I have to say that, to me, it's not as good as Isabell Allende's House of Spirits This book is kind of rambling without a strong plot point. It does seem to be comming together and she is slowly pulling the threads to a single point.

I was wondering if anybody else has read it. What do you think of it and how do you think it compares to her other work The House of Spirits?
 
Allende makes wonderful use of language in all her books. As you say, I think House of Spirits is vastly superior to Eva Luna. Neither of the other two from the same period, Stories of Eva Luna and Of Love and Shadows are the equals of House of Spirits either (in my opinion).

If you want to continue with Allende, I would strongly recommend both Daughter of Forture and Portrait in Sepia (they go together and I can't remember which comes first.) Again, I still think House of Spirits is the best of the best, but these two are quite good as well.

Having said that, Allende does such lovely things with language in all her books, that they are worth reading for that reason alone.
 
Yes, I agree with you that she has a lovely way with language! Also, I really like the way she has a habit of mentioning and or linking odd/strange/wonderful events with more mundane events.

For example, "Rolf Carl began working with senor Aravena at the same time th Russians launched a space capsule cointaining a dog"

Also, her characters are great!

Thanks for the recommendation of those other books. I will take a note of it :)
 
ksheppard said:
If you want to continue with Allende, I would strongly recommend both Daughter of Forture and Portrait in Sepia (they go together and I can't remember which comes first.)
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I think "Daughter of Fortune" comes first.
However, I have read "Portrait in Sepia", and I didn't like it much. It's probably a really great novel for a lot of people, but at times I just found it to be really boring. It might just be me, or maybe it was the translation, I don't know.
But it was a little blah.

I have heard that "The House of the Spirits" is much better, so I'll give it a try one day.
 
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